Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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